Being the hunter of craft beer that I’ve become, I was excited for my first trip to Vegas after adopting this life. I mean, it’s Vegas. A city with lush golf courses in the middle of a desert. A city with white tigers. A city with easy access to ridiculously rare wines, the best cigars,Continue reading...

In San Diego, you get quite a range of breweries, encapsulating everything from “Wow, there’s a ton of corporate money behind this place” to “Did we accidentally step into a college kids’ basement?” Somewhere along that spectrum lies the people who are just doing it right. At the end of the day, it’s about theContinue reading...

I’ve likely said it before, but I’m not a stout person. I don’t mean that I’m frail, I mean that I don’t like coffee, so I don’t like beers that taste like coffee. The craft beer lover in me often feels inferior due to this fact, so I regularly try to dip my toes intoContinue reading...

If you don’t follow my every move and exploit, then you’re not a stalker. This is a good thing. However, this also means that you may not know that my (now) wife and I took a drinking honeymoon. I know that EVERYBODY takes a drinking honeymoon except for most Amish people, and Muslims, and recoveringContinue reading...

Sweet mother of Christ that is a long name for a beer. As I was reading the label I felt like Fry in the episode of Futurama where he drank the emperor, reciting the illustrious list of people that I’ve drank. Luckily, my ADD kicked in and I decided to buy it and try itContinue reading...

With the World Cup in full swing, I figured I had to drink some Brazilian beers in order to honor the occasion. Enter Palma Louca, which represents 33% of the Brazilian beers that I was able to locate in my normal liquor stores. I didn’t know anything about it other than it was Brazilian. HereContinue reading...

I’ve been trying to get some brief interviews from brewers to add to the site but I’ve come up completely empty so far. I’m really bummed because I came up with the name Interbrews for it and nobody will respond to a damn e-mail. Deep sigh. To tide you over (the four of you), IContinue reading...

Being from Nebraska, I’ve missed green. Spring and summer bring about these vivid greens in plants that don’t exist in Southern California. Flying into Portland, I got a taste of those vivid greens that come from actual rain and seasons. And then I got a taste of a bunch of different beers. I was inContinue reading...

You probably noticed the sound of silence on the blog for the past couple weeks. If you don’t follow me on Twitter, you probably didn’t know that I got married on the 17th, that I had my bachelor party in Vegas on the 12th, or that I was going on my honeymoon right after theContinue reading...

I’m going to try to hide my pure, unadulterated love for this beer. It could sleep with my fiancee and total my car and I’d still probably laugh, pay for its cab ride home, and tell all of my friends “Oh that Baba…” Dammit, I was supposed to hide my beer boner. But I digress.Continue reading...

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Bret Londer

Bret Londer is a human in Encinitas, California. He drinks beer and perambulates. Sometimes he prematurely gesticulates. But he likes beer and writing stuff and the internet exists so now he's doing it.